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The Helper’s High
Want to feel better? Live longer? Dodge a bad mood? Lift yourself up? It’s easy. Go help someone else! “Helper’s high” has been well…
One Secret of Happiness: Cultivating the “Active Constructive Response”
When we receive news or respond to a comment or compliment, we have a choice of 4 styles of response. Imagine a 4-square grid with…
Change BEFORE a Crisis Forces You to Change
I’ve always thought that change was inevitable in life. Yet a significant part of me is a control freak who is very fond of at…
Fist Bump: Cure for Common Cold?
Tired of wheezing, sneezing and coughing your way through cold season? A fist bump transfers only 5% of the bacteria of a handshake, and a…
At Last! A Cure for Common Cold!
Ok, a tiny bit of hyperbole BUT… I’ve been doing the “Fist Bump” for close to two years and I’ve experienced a DRAMATIC reduction in…
Thoughts for the New Year
What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? What Do I Want to Learn Most/Next? WHO Do I Want to Be? How Good Do I Have to…
EQ: The Beginning of Rapport and a Relationship
A smile, a nod, a quick acknowledgement: Effective use of non-verbal communication. Much has been made of EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) of late, as a…
Casting a worthy shadow
I think about leadership constantly. The greatest personal growth I have undergone has come from professional challenges I face growing a real estate company from…
Privacy is an Illusion
A Canadian filmmaker who is blind in one eye announced plans to have a mini-camera installed in his prosthetic eye in order to make documentaries…
The Most Important Person I’ve Ever Hired
I have a few folks that I mentor and I get interesting questions on occasion. This time it was “Who is the The Most Important…